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    Thomas Mifflin (January 10, 1744 – January 20, 1800) was an American merchant, soldier, and politician from Pennsylvania, who is regarded as a Founding...
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    Pittsburgh. The population was 19,589 at the 2020 census. It is named after Thomas Mifflin, 1st Governor of Pennsylvania, signer of the United States Constitution...
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  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (/ˈhoʊtən/; HOH-tən; HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference...
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  • Peruvian footballer Thomas Mifflin (1744–1800), American merchant and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania George Harrison Mifflin (1845–1921), American...
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  • 1781) John Dickinson (November 4, 1782) Henry Hill (October 17, 1785) Thomas Mifflin (October 20, 1788 – December 21, 1790) Chester County John Mackey (McKay...
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    and Northumberland County. It was named for Thomas Mifflin, the first Governor of Pennsylvania. Mifflin County comprises the Lewistown, PA Micropolitan...
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    conquest of Philadelphia in autumn 1777. In 1795, the fort was renamed for Thomas Mifflin, a Continental Army officer and the first post-independence Pennsylvania...
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    terms in both offices. The longest term was that of the first governor, Thomas Mifflin, who served three full terms as governor in addition to two years as...
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    The Thomas Mifflin School is an historic, American school that is located in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the...
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    decision, which had been prepared by the Committee of Five, which asked Thomas Jefferson to author its first draft. While Jefferson consulted extensively...
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    University of Pittsburgh Darlington Autograph Files. "Thomas McKean and William Irvine to Governor Thomas Mifflin, August 22, 1794". The Pennsylvania State Register...
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    stands in Mifflin, although it has long been abandoned. Mifflin is named after Thomas Mifflin, the first Governor of Pennsylvania. Mifflin is located...
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    Virginia politics. Lee was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, to Colonel Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison Ludwell Lee on January 20, 1732. He came from a...
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    Quarterly. 68 (4): 597–630. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.68.4.0597. ISSN 0043-5597. Thomas Paine (1982). Isaac Kramnick (ed.). Common Sense. Penguin Classics. p. 21...
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    Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 300. ISBN 978-0618267460. ...arguably owed more to Jefferson's...
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    Livingston (New York) Thomas McKean (Delaware) Thomas Nelson (Virginia) Edward Rutledge (South Carolina) Roger Sherman (Connecticut) Thomas Stone (Maryland)...
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    (originally College of Philadelphia): Francis Hopkinson, Henry Marchant, Thomas Mifflin, William Paca, Hugh Williamson Yale University (originally Yale College):...
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    major influence expanding on the contract theory of government advanced by Thomas Hobbes, his contemporary. Locke advanced the principle of consent of the...
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  • for the Revolutionary War major and first governor of Pennsylvania, Thomas Mifflin, it is located in Shillington, Berks County, Pennsylvania and serves...
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    The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of John Hancock. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 189. ISBN 0395276195. Cashin, Edward J. (2005). "Revolutionary War...
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    being the location of the homestead to Pennsylvania's first governor, Thomas Mifflin, and as the childhood home of American author John Updike. Many of Updike's...
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    lacked a quorum to select a successor, and so he stayed on. President Thomas Mifflin found it difficult to convince the states to send enough delegates to...
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    1780. The first Quartermaster General to serve in the U.S. Army was Thomas Mifflin of Pennsylvania. The position of Quartermaster General originated in...
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    date that the Declaration was signed has long been the subject of debate. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams all wrote that it was signed...
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    Money: Where It Came, Whence It Went, pp. 54–54. Houghton Mifflin Company. Montgomery, Thomas Harrison (1900). A History of the University of Pennsylvania...
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  • January 7, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The New Yorker, August 4, 2011. Thomas Allen. Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War. New York...
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    United States Declaration of Independence (category Works by Thomas Jefferson)
    Independence Archived September 26, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, p. 25 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002): "the Declaration is not a legal instrument, like the Constitution"...
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    village of Mifflinsburgh (now Mifflinburg) was formed. It was named for Thomas Mifflin, who was governor of Pennsylvania and first governor under the PA Constitution...
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  • concept from its status as a political myth after Hume, by referring to Thomas Hill Green. Green wrote that government required "will not force" for administration...
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  • November–December 1792 Maria had applied to both Wadsworth and Governor General Thomas Mifflin. In the attempt to convince them to help her obtain her husband's release...
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